Person with a knife and a onion. Crying person with a knife and a cut onion

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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Usually if onions are making you cry it’s because your knife is too dull!

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Everyone's talking about how to do this without crying. Cut the roots. Wash the knife. The real way to prevent tears is to not become emotionally attached to the onion before cutting.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, and don't give them names, for dog's sake!

    But tbh, sharpen your knives. It really helps a lot, because the cells are cut instead of being crushed, which greatly reduces the release of whatever make your eyes tear up.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Water is the solution. Rinse as you're cutting.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Make sure you don’t cut the root, that’s where the sadness lives.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You have to cut the whole onion in half through the root to dice.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Everytime

    Still not a word.

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    [–] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    cut off the root first. that's where the highest concentration of the stinging stuff is. i've never had an issue since i started doing that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The only thing I have ever found to work is cutting them while submerging them in water. Which is way more effort for so little gain that I don't even bother.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Some people say to hold a spoon in your mouth but it's really not needed. Just breathe heavily through your mouth while you cut. 90% of the time this is enough.

    I always also wondered if wearing ordinary glasses would work. Goggles obviously would be that just seems over the top

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Regular glasses makes things worse as now I've put down my glasses to wipe my eyes and have lost my glasses while holding a knife help help oh wait there they are

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Swimming goggles

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Y'all just need sharper knives

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm wondering how many of you have worked on a line. I did for a few years and never saw anyone bothered by it, at least not so much that couldn't be hidden with sweat.

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